“Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.”
Leland Stanford
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Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
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The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.
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